Thom Panunzio

Thom Panunzio is a music producer and engineer.

Thom started his career in 1974 at the Record Plant Studios NYC, working with John Lennon. After becoming a staff engineer at the Record Plant, and later at The Hit Factory, Thom has been at the center of the music business from the mid-1970s onward. Having teamed up early with Jimmy Iovine, together they would go on to make records for decades. Thom worked with Andrew Loog Oldham on The Rolling Stones’ Metamorphosis in 1975, and later that year worked with Bruce Springsteen on Born to Run. In 1978 he worked with Patti Smith on Easter, while simultaneously working again with Springsteen on Darkness on the Edge of Town. (Thom is prominently featured in the documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town.) Thom has also produced, engineered and mixed legendary artists such as Bob Dylan, U2, Stevie Nicks, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, The Who, Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, David Bowie, Tom Petty, Paul Butterfield and more. Thom’s experience also includes the making of motion picture soundtracks, such as Road House and Rattle & Hum. Thom also worked as the live musical producer for the Farmclub.com series, which featured performances by everyone from Dr. Dre and Eminem to No Doubt and The Wu Tang Clan.

Thom’s talents transcend the artistic and also include solid technological expertise. He helped design The Hit Factory studios for the Germano family in New York, as well as A&M Studios (now Henson Recording Studios) in Los Angeles. Later, he helped design the Interscope/ Geffen/ A&M studios where he also created The Thom Thom Club.

In 2003, Thom joined Universal Music Group as Executive Senior VP, and Head of A&R for Geffen Records. Since then he has overseen the careers of Nelly Furtado, Weezer, The Pussycat Dolls, Rise Against and many others on the Interscope/ Geffen/ A&M roster. He also served as the musical producer for all the live music for American Idol (Season 10).

Selected Discography

(P) Produced (CP) Co-Produced (EP) Executive Produced (E) Engineered (AE) Assistant Engineered (M) Mixed

ARTIST	ALBUM	CREDIT
Aerosmith	Classics Live!	E
Aerosmith	Box of Fire	E
Agent Orange	Real Live Sound	P/E/M
Alice Cooper	A Fistful of Alice	P/E
Alice Cooper	Freedom for Frankenstein	P/E
Alice Cooper	Hell Is	P
Alice Cooper	The Definitive Alice Cooper	P
Alice Cooper	Mascara and Monsters	P
Alice Cooper	Live at Cabo Wabo ‘96	P/E
Alice Cooper	Classicks	P
Alice In Chains	Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	P/E/M
Ayumi Nakamura	Holly Night	M
Beat Farmers	Poor & Famous	P/E/M
Black Sabbath	Reunion	P/E
Block	Timing is Everything	CP/E/M
Block	Lead Me Not into Penn Station	P/E
Blue Öyster Cult	Specters	E
Blue Rodeo	Tremolo	M
Blue Rodeo	Just Like a Vacation	M
Bob Dylan	Biograph	M
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band	The Fire Inside	E
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band	Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets	E
Boom Crash Opera	These Here are Crazy Times	M
Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town	E
Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	AE
Bruce Springsteen	USA for Africa: We Are The World- “Trapped”	E/M
Bruce Springsteen	"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"	E/M
Bruce Springsteen	Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story	E
Bruce Springsteen	Tracks	E/M
Carla Olson & The Textones	Midnight Mission	M
Cell Mates	Between Two Fires	P
Chocolate Starfish	Box	M
Circus of Power	Magic & Madness	P/E
Corey Stevens	Bring on The Blues	M
Corey Stevens	Road to Zen	M
Darlene Love	Paint Another Picture	E
Dave Koz	Off the Beaten Path	CP/E/M
Dave Koz	December Makes Me Feel This Way	P/E/M
Dave Koz	Ultimate Christmas	P
Dave Koz	Memories of a Winter's Night	P/M
Deep Purple	The Battle Rages On...	P
Deep Purple	Shades 1968-1998	P
Del Lords	Lovers Who Wander	P/E/M
Dion	Yo Frankie	M
Eastern Conference Champions	Ameritown	P/E/M
Elliott Murphy	Going Through Something	P
Eric Gales Band	Picture of a Thousand Faces	M
Euphoraphonic	Far from Home	P/E/M
Fear Factory	Hatefiles	P/M
Fear Factory	Linchpin	P/M
Fishbone	Reality of My Surroundings	M
Gene Loves Jezebel	The Motion of Love	P/E/M
Grand Funk Railroad	Grand Funk Lives	P/E/M
Hanne Boel	My Kindred Spirit	E
Hanne Boel	Dark Passion	E
Hanne Boel	Kinda Soul	E
Hericane Alice	Tear the House Down	P
I.C.U	Defy	E
Iggy Pop	Soldier	M
Iggy Pop	Party	P/E/M
Iggy Pop	The Story of Iggy Pop	P/E/M
Iggy Pop	The Heritage Collection	P/E/M
Iggy Pop	A Million in Prizes: The Anthology	P/E/M
Iggy Pop	Platinum & Gold Collection	P
Jimmy Barnes	For the Working Class Man	E
Jimmy Barnes	In the Heat of the Night	E
Jimmy Barnes	JB50	E
Jimmy Barnes	Jimmy Barns	E
Jimmy Cliff	In Concert: The Best of Jimmy Cliff	E/M
Joan Armatrading	Me Myself I	E/M
Joan Jett	The Hit List	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Fetish	P
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Fit to Be Tied	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Flashback	P/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Good Music	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Jett Rock	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Pure and Simple	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Sinner	E
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Up Your Alley	P/E/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Notorious	P/M
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Naked	E
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Do You Wanna Touch Me	P
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band	Roadhouse: The Voice of Eddie & the Cruisers	M
Kelly Osbourne	Changes	P/E/M
Kid Creole	Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983	E
Kids in the Kitchen	Kids in the Kitchen	P
Kim Larsen	Sitting on a Time Bomb	E
Laura Warshauer	Laura Warshauer	P
Lifehouse	Who We Are	M
Link Wray	Live at the Paradiso	CP/E/M
Lions & Ghosts	Wild Garden	P/E/M
Little Bob Story	"Too Young to Love Me"	P/E/M
Lone Justice	Lone Justice	E
Lone Justice	This World Is Not My Home	E
Machine	There But for the Grace of God Go I	E
Maria McKee	You Gotta Sin to Get Saved	E
Maria Vidal	Maria Vidal	E
Mark Farner	No Frills	E
Marshall Crenshaw	Marshall Crenshaw	E/M
Marshall Crenshaw	Downtown	E/M
Mary Cutrufello	When The Night is Through	P/E/M
Matt White	Best Days	P/E
Mental As Anything	Fundamental as Anything	E/M
Metal Church	Hanging in the Balance	P/E/M
Michael Falch	De Vildeste Fugle
Mink DeVille	Coup de Grâce	P/E/M
Mother’s Finest	Black Radio Won't Play This Record	P/E
Motörhead	Hammered	P/E/M
Nelly Furtado	Loose	EP
New Found Glory	Coming Home	P
No Doubt	Return of Saturn	E
No Doubt	Boom Box	E
No Doubt	Everything in Time	E
Nuclear Valdez	I Am I	P/E/M
Outcry	This Side of Anywhere	M
Ozzy Osbourne	Live At Budokan	P/E/M
Ozzy Osbourne	Diary of a Madman Reissue 2002	E/M
Ozzy Osbourne	Blizzard of Oz Reissue 2002	E/M
Ozzy Osbourne	Essential: Ozzy Osbourne	P
Ozzy Osbourne	Prince of Darkness	P
Patti LaBelle	Winner in You	E
Patti Smith	Easter	E
Patti Smith	Dream of Life	E
Patti Smith	The Patti Smith Masters: The Collective Works	P/E
Patti Smith Group	Wave	P
Paul Butterfield	The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again	P/E/M
Peter Murphy	Hit Song	E
Poison	Poison'd!	P
Poison	Hollyweird	P/E/M
Poison	Nothin’ But a Good Time	P
Puzzle Gut	Puzzle Gut	P/E/M
Revólver	Grandes Éxitos	P/E
Revólver	Calle Mayor	P/E
Robert Gordon	Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die	E
Robert Gordon	Bad Boy	E
Roger Daltrey	A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who	E/M
Sepultura	Roots	M
Shaggy	Clothes Drop	P/M
Sheryl Crow	C'Mon, C'Mon	E
Slaves On Dope	Inches From the Mainline	P/E/M
Slayer	Live Intrusion	M
Soul Asylum	Runaway Train	E/M
Soul Asylum	Black Gold	E/M
Stella Soleil	Dirty Little Secret	P/E/M
Stevie Nicks		Bella Donna E
Stevie Nicks	Street Angel	P/E/M
The D.I.s	Rare Cuts	M
The Go-Go's	Vacation	E/M
The Graces	Perfect View	P
The Jeff Healey Band	Platinum & Gold Collection	P
The Jeff Healey Band	Cover to Cover	P/E/M
The Jeff Healey Band	See the Light	CP/E/M
The Reverend Horton Heat	Holy Roller	P/E/M
The Reverend Horton Heat	It's Martini Time	P/E/M
The Reverend Horton Heat	Liquor in the Front	M
The Roaches	Another World	E
The Roaches	Collected Works of The Roaches	E
The Uninvited	The Uninvited	P/E/M
The Wallflowers	Letters from the Wasteland (2nd single “Breech”)	M
The Young Dubliners	Red	P/E/M
Tito & Tarantula	Tarantism	M
Tom Jones	The Lead and How to Swing It	P/E/M
Tom Jones	I Wanna Get Back With You	P
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Damn the Torpedoes	AE
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Long After Dark	M
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Playback	E
Tommy James	In Touch	M
Tracy Chapman	Matters of the Heart	E
U2	Rattle and Hum	E/M
Various Artists	Take It or Leave It: A Tribute to the Queens of Noise – The Runaways	P
Various Artists	VH1 Stoytellers y	M
Various Artists	Live and Unreleased from Farmclub.com	P/E/M
Various Artists	Rubaiyat: Elektra’s 40th Anniversary	E/M
Various Artists	America: A Tribute to Heroes	M
Various Artists	Ozzfest, Vol. 1: Live	P/E/M
Various Artists	Ozzfest: Second Stage Live	P/E/M
Various Artists	Ozzfest 2002 Live Album	P/E/M
Various Artists	Special Olympics: A Very Special Christmas	E
Various Artists	Special Olympics: A Very Special Christmas Vol. 2	E
Various Artists	Special Olympics: A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 4 Live: from Washington D.C.	M
Various Artists	Special Olympics: A Very Special Christmas Vol. 5	E
Various Artists	Laguna Tunes	E/M
Various Artists	Festival of Light, Vol. 2	P/E/M
Various Artists	Soul Divas	E
Various Artists	Spirit of '73: Rock for Choice	E
Various Artists	Christmas of Hope	E
Various Artists	Flavors of Jazz	P
Various Artists	Genrecide: A Compilation, Vol. 1	E/M
Various Artists	USA for Africa: We Are the World	M
Various Artists	Reelin' in the Years, Vol. 1	E
Venice	Spinart	M
Vinnie James	All American Boy	P
War Babies	War Babies	P/E/M
Will T. Massey	Will T. Massey	P/E/M
William Tell	You Can Hold Me Down	P/M
Willie Nile	Golden Down	P/E/M

MOVIE SOUNDTRACK	CREDIT
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls	P
Bachelor Party	E/M
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows	P
Blast from the Past	P/E
Days Of Thunder	CP/E/M
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	P
Desperado	M
Fast Times at Ridgemont High	E/M
Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas	P
Gotcha	CP/E/M
Heavy Metal	E/M
Less Than Zero	E/M
Light of Day	CP/E/M
Mr. Wrong	P
Navy Seals	P/E/M
No Nukes	E/M
Rattle and Hum	E
Road House	CP/E/M
Shark Tale	P
Singles	CP/E/M
Tank Girl	M
The Air Up There	M
Times Square	E/M
Varsity Blues	M
Wild Life	E/M

TV SOUNDTRACK	CREDIT
Galaxy Rangers	P/E/M
MTV Presents Laguna Beach: Summer Can Last Forever	P
One Life to Live: The Best of Love	E/M
Osbourne Family Album	E/M

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